mfgrimm

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   by mfgrimm 6y ago

   Yeah that one is amazing. Also the auto-correcting basketball backboard that makes your shot always go in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycDx69px8U&t=457s
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   by mfgrimm 8y ago

   Actually, as a mechanical engineer at a consumer products startup, I would have appreciated this clarification.
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   by mfgrimm 10y ago

   I suppose the best comparison would be to compare non-Tesla owners of the same demographic. Are accident rates correlated to SES? Do people who buy luxury sedans crash less? Just a guess: probably. Still, I know I drive stupidly sometimes,
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   by mfgrimm 10y ago

   Can only speak from my experience - I'm a westerner who spent time living with a Chinese family as a 16 y.o. From my outsider perspective, it's not that there is no western analog; rather the meaning changes with context and there
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   by mfgrimm 10y ago

   I visited the region (eastern Sichuan, Tibetan plateau) in 2006, and played counterstrike and diablo 2 against monks at the local internet cafe. Very surreal, getting shot in the head by a monk.